Health authorities are on high alert after another melioidosis death in North Queensland amid fears the disease is occurring ...

A potentially deadly virus was detected for the first time in Queensland’s capital as the state health authority issued warnings about the mosquito-borne disease in the wake of extreme weather ...

Japanese encephalitis spreads via mosquitoes. It has been detected in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs and claimed two lives in NSW ...

Queensland is facing a vape storage crisis as tens of thousands of confiscated devices pile up, prompting urgent law changes ...

In January, Queensland recorded its first locally-acquired case of Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) since 2022, likely ...

Health authorities in Townsville are urging people to take precautions following a rare diphtheria diagnosis and a growing ...

The potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus Japanese encephalitis has been detected in Brisbane for the first time.

Children are being targeted by tobacco marketing, including in toy stores, amid gaps in Australian laws, Queensland ...

News Corp Australia and Medibank have launched 'Can We Talk?' an awareness campaign to help Aussie families better tackle ...

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...

Medicare rebates are getting a boost across 17 Australian communities as the remoteness of each locality is reclassified ...

Seven people have now died from melioidosis in flood-ravaged north Queensland this year. Dozens of cases have been reported in the state in recent weeks, which experts have described as unprecedented.